Life doesn't hand out joy. It rewards the people who choose to find it, even on ordinary days.
“There are no laughs in life unless you take them yourself.”
— Mark Twain
The historic Maya oriented their lives by the heavens. In 2022, their descendants and Western scholars teamed up to understand their sophisticated astronomy.
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From the vantage point of space, North America unfolds like a living masterpiece of nature.Towering snow-capped peaks of the Rocky Mountains carve dramatic ridges across the west, giving way to endless emerald blankets of boreal forests and fertile plains. Scattered across the landscape, countless shimmering lakes and the vast inland seas of the Great Lakes sparkle under the sun, while the deep blue curve of Earth’s atmosphere wraps the entire continent in a glowing embrace.This is our planet in its purest form — immense, diverse, and breathtakingly beautiful, a single sweeping view that captures mountains, forests, and water in perfect harmony.A reminder of how stunning Earth truly is from above.
Image credit: NASA / ESA / International Space Station
Although cancer is a common cause of death in domestic cats, little is known about the range of cancer genes in cat tumors, and how this range might compare with the oncogenome in people.
Now, researchers in Science have sequenced cancer genes in 493 samples from 13 different types of feline cancer and matched healthy control tissue, gaining a clearer picture of the cat oncogenome and comparing the genes to known cancer-causing mutations in humans.
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